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Description: Transcribing dictation from a Dictaphone wax cylinder dictation machine, from the 1920s. The dictation machine is in the foreground. The typist is wearing 'stethoscope' type earphones attached to the machine. Her foot is on a pedal which starts and stops the playback. The white objects under the machine are more wax cylinders. The source text says a speedy dictaphone transcriber could earn $1.00 to $1.25 per hour, much higher than ordinary typists and stenographers. Alterations: removed caption, increased brightness.
Title: Dictaphone operator
Credit: Downloaded 2008-1-12 from Clarence Charles Smith (1922) The Expert Typist, MacMillan Co., New York, USA, p.127, fig.42 on Google Books. The photo is credited (p.122) to the Columbia Phonograph Co.
Author: Columbia Phonograph Co.
Permission: Public domain - published in USA before 1923.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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